Please read these instructions carefully so as to understand what you are expected to do in class during these layout days.
NEW STAFFERS
Welcome to chaos, magic and the computer lab. During these next four class periods (usually it will only be three) we will be here, in the lab, working on putting the newspaper together. Yes, this is where the magic happens and where all the hard work gets turned into the awesome thing called The Marin Academy Voice. For you, your work is done. You have written articles, taken photos, pulled together the content for the newspaper. Now you get to work on some skills and otherwise become even more awesome than you currently are.
Please complete the following work as directed. Check the syllabus for nightly homework.
Wednesday: First Amendment for the high school journalist — This will be your first introduction to NewsU and to the courses you will take. You will need to create a log-in account and register for the course. Once you've done that, you can get going. Send a course report to me once you've complete this course.
Friday: The Interview — As one former staffer said, "I feel like my MA diploma should have an asterisk that says NewU graduate."
Tuesday: Building Blocks of News — It's amazing how much smarter you are after today's class.
Thursday: CHANGE IN PLANS! Two stories, 40 minutes. It's go time.
RETURNING STAFFERS
Your work during these days is a bit different, a but more fun (I hope). I would love you to make either some InDesign or Photoshop tutorials for the class. Think about the lessons you learned over the last year or what cool thing you figured out. Or you could do some of the basics: how to adjust color on a photo, how to change the color of a text box or text, etc. There are lots of options, and hopefully you'll find something you enjoy to work on and teach others. You could also do something about the elements of a good news piece or feature piece and find examples. Think of this as expanding on the MUSTS already on the blog. If you have any questions, let's chat.
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Homework 9/15: Takeaways from Court Cases
1.) As a school newspaper, and therefore a non-public forum, the MA Voice can be censored if school officials decide it must be done
2.) Students have all the First Amendment rights unless "there is a real threat of violence, or a substantial disruption to the educational environment.”
3.) If school officials see an action by students (such as a protest) as a threat to the school they can exercise their authority and take disciplinary measures
1.) In public schools, journalists have 1st Ammendment rights unless there is a real threat of violence or disruption to the education/ livelihood of other people
2) As students we have the power to stand up to something we believe violates our 1st Ammendment rights
3)There is a big difference in journalism between the private an public domain. Because Marin Academy is a private institution, school authorities can censor anything they deem necessary.
Three Biggest Takeaways from Court Cases
1) Students' First Amendment rights apply unless "there is a real threat of violence, or a substantial disruption to the educational environment"
2) There is a difference in censorship rules between a public/non-public forum; if the forum is public, the school can censor its students if they can justify it
3) The Hazelwood decision reduced First Amendment rights for (public) high school students---they don't have the same First Amendment rights in publications as adults
1. No matter where or who you are, it is important to take action and defend your rights because change IS possible.
2. Controversy between freedom of speech at school seemed to come up a lot. If schools are going to censor articles or signs and posters do we really have freedom of speech at school? The limitations that schools put on what you can say or write and when is something that is easily mistaken as violating Freedom of Speech, but is it the school's right/responsibility to "protect" students from violent or derogatory comments?
3. If people who are open to participate in giving us (journalism class) quotes to use for the newspaper are than penalized for being honest about the question (such as drinking, cheating, etc.) than nobody will ever feel they can give quotes without having to censor themselves and modify the truth.
Takeaways from Court Cases:
1)The Voice can be censored if school officials decide to do so.
2)As students, we are allowed to express ourselves, as per the 1st Amendment, but we aren't allowed to do so if we could become violent, or if our expression is having a negative effect on the school.
3)Students don't always win these types of cases.
Takeaways from Court Cases
1. If something in Marin Academy feels unjust and unconstitutional anyone has the power to change it.
2. Don't feel threatened and afraid to express your thoughts and beliefs
3. Many controversial articles are published in the MA Voice but there is still some censorship.
1. Although students at MA might feel like they have the ability to speak out pubilicy against the school whenever they feel obliged to,in truth backed by the amendments the MA administration has the right to not allow any opinion that jeopardizes the well-being of the community to be shared
2.If a student at MA feels like any of there rights are being violated they have the right to speak up and stand up for themselves.
3.Just like any other newspaper the MA Voice has certain ammendments and rules that it must follow.
1. If The school officials think that an article will cause harm to someone, or disrupt the educational environment, they can censor it.
2.Since the voice is not a public newspaper, school officials have more power over it.
3. A school must provide adequate reasoning to censor the free speech of students
My takeaway from the court cases:
1. Schools have a huge amount of power and can censor their student body in most cases. This is because schools have the ability to deem something disruptive or inappropriate, which can be easily applied to anything.
2. While freedom of speech may seem great and all, it's actually pretty limited. If something is disrespectful or causes harm to others it isn't protected by our constitutional rights.
3. I'm a little confused about what rights we are giving up by going to a private school instead of a public one, but it seems to me that MA is a lot more lenient than other schools. If last years drug and alcohol issue were to be published at a public school it would probably be censored, but it wasn't here.
1.) I really took away the emphasis placed on how much power is placed in the hands of students and people. Although some authority figures may attempt to thwart actions if a group stands up and petitions a change can be made.
2.) I thought it was really interesting how some schools choose to reject federal funding in order to restrict unrestricted online access.
3.)Another big takeaway from the course was the section that provided various opinions from experts, teachers, principals as well as parents. I thought it was really interesting to see issues, such as blocking facebook on school computers, from different perspectives than my own.
1) I like how it explains that MA does not make us salute the flag and explains that it is part of our rights that we do not have to.
2) Even though you have free speech you can't say anything without it coming back to bite you such as "bong hits for jesus". This is promoting drugs so it was not allowed by the school.
3) Sometimes even though you have a right it is nice to comply with others requests such as a parent asking for no peer editing.
Takeaways from Court Cases
1. As long as we are factual in our articles, and the information is relevant, we can generally write what we want. However, this is not always true as we must...
2. defer to school administrators. This is my major take-away from Dean v Utica.
3. Be respectful , and not disruptive if we are protesting. As long as it is peaceful and not clearly vulgar or offensive, we are allowed our speech.
Overall, my major take-away was that student speech CAN be censored at school.
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